A Midsummer Night's Dream ~ Humour Helps ~ Humour is often the key to any good performance. In the Shakespearean play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream the playwright – William Shakespeare – utilises humour as a tool to both enlighten the viewer and to create an interesting play. One very humorous character, in this play, is the weaver – Nick Bottom. One funny line – that was used when an actual ass-head had been placed on him – is when Bottom speaks of his friends’ “…knavery…” as to try to make “…an ass of…” him (III, i, 110). Here Bottom has no idea that he has an actual ass-head on his shoulders. Another display of Bottom’s humorous disposition is when Bottom admits that he can “…gleek upon occasion” (III, i, 136). Thereby demonstrating that he can take jokes as well as give ....

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